Israeli Settlement Freeze Ends, Spurring Tensions in Peace Talks

By

Joshua Mitnick

Updated Sept. 27, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

TEL AVIV—Jewish settlers marked the last day of Israel's construction moratorium in the West Bank with celebrations and vows to build at full steam on Monday, with no sign of a resolution to a settlement-expansion dispute that threatens to undermine the newly restarted Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.